Are the 5850 chip video cards being discontinued?

[bupkus]

My search this weekend at newegg showed 4 listed and 3 of them discontinued or OOS. Today there's only 2 of 4 in stock.
The Sapphire Xtreme I was eyeballing is gone and not even listed. Was $140 a clearance price?
What's happening?

 

[manimal]

eol

 

[SlowSpyder]

You have to remember this part launched in Sept. 2009. It is end of life now.

 

[bupkus]

So what can I find at that $140 price point? Will it be better or less so?

 

[Termie]

You can still buy the 5850 Xtreme here: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=199805&CatId=3669

And potentially here as well: http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-100282XTREME/dp/B004W75ATI

But yes, these cards are going to disappear quickly - I think the Xtreme model was designed to clear the stock on the GPUs.

 

[Arkadrel]

The cheapest 6850 and 5850 are around 154$ after Mail in rebates currently.

Im not sure if its possible at 140$ to get anything faster than a 5850.
Even the 1gb 460 is usually around 160$ on newegg or up, which is a slower card.

You shoulda bought the 5850 when you could find them at 140$.

If your patient though, a few months from now (probably aug-sept ish) should have the 7xxx series.
Thats bound to drive things down abit.

 

[notty22]

TigerDirect is still taking orders on 5850 extreme, says ships in 3-5 days. Also , re-certified reference 5850's for 145.00
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?keywords=5850

 

[Termie]

TigerDirect is still taking orders on 5850 extreme, says ships in 3-5 days. Also , re-certified reference 5850's for 145.00
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?keywords=5850

You can also get an XFX HD5850 with a free game (Shogun 2) for $150AR, which is still a better deal than anything else out there.

 

[LucJoe]

My search this weekend at newegg showed 4 listed and 3 of them discontinued or OOS. Today there's only 2 of 4 in stock.
The Sapphire Xtreme I was eyeballing is gone and not even listed. Was $140 a clearance price?
What's happening?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102932

That one?

The Sapphire 5850 Xtreme was a 5850 build on a 6000-series board. Looks pretty close to their 6770:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...apphire%206770

Anyway, it was definitely a great value at $139 but also a limited production item, probably to use up leftover 5850 chips.

Sapphire has been know to do this stuff in the past. My current video card is a Sapphire 4860. Popped up for a brief period on Newegg (nowhere else in the US) and when it went on sale for $100 I took a chance on it. It's based on a 4890 core and overclocks like a champ but the drivers always recognize it as "4800 series" as they have no idea what a 4860 is. It wasn't an official card, Sapphire sort of threw it together, presumably with leftover/underperforming 4890 chips.

 

[GaiaHunter]

It's based on a 4890 core and overclocks like a champ but the drivers always recognize it as "4800 series" as they have no idea what a 4860 is. It wasn't an official card, Sapphire sort of threw it together, presumably with leftover/underperforming 4890 chips.

Nah.

It's AMD MO - my 4850 is also a "4800 series" and my 6850 a "6800 series" in the drivers and GPU-Z (which read the drivers).

 

[MagickMan]

EOL. Damn they had a long run, still very competitive too.

 

[nemesismk2]

the Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Extreme is in short supply because I almost bought them all lol

 

[betasub]

It is end of life now.

End of (sales) line. Hopefully for owners, the 5850 has plenty of life in it yet

 

[CraigRT]

I just bought a 5870 not that long ago. The thing is awesome. Runs everything at full res.

 

[nenforcer]

I think the GTX 460 768MB is also going EOL.

Only 7 listed on NE and of those 4 are out of stock leaving 3.

The new GTX 560 is to be announced next week.